Project Description
Boxwood Musozutsu Ensemble
Pipe case: Carved with rice plants. Gold mount. Signed: Shoan Soko [Toshiyama Soko 1868-1935]. 22.8 cm
Ojime: plain malachite bead. 2 cm
Pouch: plain woven fibre, possibly wystaria, stamped with a maker’s mark
Maekanagu: shakudo cicada with gilt details, unsigned
Pipe: Unadorned gold and shakudo fittings, , stamped jun kin [pure gold]; stem of bamboo
Provenance:
E.A. Wrangham, Alnwick (no. 2311)
Information:
A similar pipe case by Joso is illustrated in Rokusho, no. 28, p. 61, no. 59
MR2011
